The Complete Hank Williams The Complete Hank Williams country Hank Williams , dalla sua prima registrazione del 1937 , fino alla sua ultima sessione di registrazione, nel 1953 , prima che lo cogliesse la morte, avvenuta quello stesso anno all'età di 29 anni. La compilation contiene in tutto 225 canzoni, tra cui 33 hit e 53 inediti.
Riconoscimenti
La compilation fu acclamata dalla critica, e ottenne vari riconoscimenti, tra i quali si ricordano:
1999 - La compilation vinse due Grammy Award come "Best Historical Album" e "Best Recording Package—Boxed".2003 - La rivista di musica Rolling Stone inserì l'album nella lista dei "500 più grandi album della storia della musica", alla posizione 225.Critica
AllMusic , nella sua recensione, attribuisce alla compilation il punteggio massimo di 5 stelle su 5.
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"Calling You" – 2:53
"Never Again (Will I Knock on Your Door)" – 2:53
"Wealth Won't Save Your Soul" – 2:45
"When God Comes and Gathers His Jewels" – 2:48
"I Don't Care (if Tomorrow Never Comes)" – 2:46
"My Love for You (Has Turned to Hate)" – 2:39
"Honky Tonkin'" – 2:45
"Pan Americans" – 2:47
"Move It on Over" – 2:44
"I Saw the Light" – 2:43
"(Last Night) I Heard You Crying in Your Sleep" – 2:42
"Six More Miles (To the Graveyard)" – 2:46
"Fly Trouble" (Bunny Biggs, Fred Rose , Honey Wilds) – 2:42
"I'm Satisfied With You" (Rose) – 2:33
"On the Banks of the Old Pontchartrain" (Ramona Vincent, Hank Williams) – 2:50
"Rootie Tootie" (Rose) – 2:44
"I Can't Get You off of My Mind" – 2:49
"I'm a Long Gone Daddy" – 2:48
"Honky Tonkin'" – 2:42
"My Sweet Love Ain't Around" – 2:42
"The Blues Come Around" – 2:40
"A Mansion on the Hill" (Rose, Williams) – 2:33 Disco due
"I'll Be a Bachelor 'Til I Die" – 2:35
"There'll Be No Teardrops Tonight" – 2:46
"Lovesick Blues" (Cliff Friend, Irving Mills) – 2:45
"Lost on the River" – 2:32
"I Heard My Mother Praying for Me" (Audrey Williams, Williams) – 2:33
"Lost Highway" (Leon Payne) – 2:40
"May You Never Be Alone" – 2:48
"Dear Brother" – 2:44
"Jesus Remembered Me" – 2:50
"Honky Tonk Blues" – 2:37
"Mind Your Own Business" – 2:53
"You're Gonna Change (Or I'm Gonna Leave)" – 2:56
"My Son Calls Another Man Daddy" – 2:33
"Wedding Bells" (Claude Boone) – 2:53
"I've Just Told Mama Goodbye" (Curly Kinsey, Slim Sweet) – 2:53
"I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry" – 2:45
"A House Without Love" – 2:52
"I Just Don't Like This Kind of Livin'" – 2:47
"My Bucket's Got a Hole in It" – 2:04
"Drinking and Being Sad" (James Ard) – 1:07
"My Bucket's Got a Hole in It" – 2:31
"Long Gone Lonesome Blues" – 2:36
"Why Don't You Love Me (Like You Used to Do)?" – 2:22
"Why Should We Try Anymore" – 2:36
"My Son Calls Another Man Daddy" – 2:32 Disco tre
"Too Many Parties and Too Many Pals" (Mort Dixon, Ray Henderson, Billy Rose) – 2:57
"Beyond the Sunset" (Blanche Brock, Virgil Brock, Albert Kennedy) – 2:58
"The Funeral" – 3:03
"Everything's Okay" – 2:48
"They'll Never Take Her Love from Me" (Payne) – 2:43
"Nobody's Lonesome for Me" – 2:29
"Moanin' the Blues" – 2:22
"Help Me Understand" – 2:54
"No, No Joe" (Rose) – 2:26
"Cold, Cold Heart" – 2:42
"Dear John" (Aubrie Gass, Tex Ritter) – 2:33
"Just Waitin'" (Bob Gazzaway, Williams) – 2:38
"Men With Broken Hearts" – 3:08
"I Can't Help It (If I'm Still in Love With You)" – 2:22
"Howlin' at the Moon" – 2:41
"Hey, Good Lookin'" – 2:53
"My Heart Would Know" – 2:24
"The Pale Horse and His Rider" (John Bailes, Irving Staggs) – 2:51
"A Home in Heaven" – 2:28
"Ramblin' Man" – 3:01
"Picture from Life's Other Side" – 2:49
"I've Been Down That Road Before" – 2:53
"I Dreamed About Mama Last Night" (Rose) – 2:58 Disco quattro
"I'd Still Want You" – 2:57
"(I Heard That) Lonesome Whistle" (Jimmie Davis, Williams) – 2:26
"Crazy Heart" (Maurice Murray, Rose) – 2:25
"Half as Much" (Curley Williams) – 2:41
"I'd Still Want You" – 2:34
"Baby, We're Really in Love" – 2:31
"I'm Sorry for You, My Friend" – 2:40
"Honky Tonk Blues" – 2:09
"Let's Turn Back the Years" – 2:21
"Window Shopping" (Marcel Joseph) – 2:30
"Jambalaya (On the Bayou)" – 2:50
"Settin' the Woods on Fire" (Ed G. Nelson, Rose) – 2:34
"I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive" (Rose, Williams) – 2:24
"You Win Again" – 2:34
"I Won't Be Home No More" – 2:43
"Be Careful of Stones That You Throw" – 2:57
"Please Make up Your Mind" – 2:43
"I Could Never Be Ashamed of You" – 2:42
"Your Cheatin' Heart" – 2:40
"Kaw-Liga" (Rose, Williams) – 2:31
"Take These Chains from My Heart" (Hy Heath, Rose) – 2:35 Disco cinque
"Happy Rovin' Cowboy" (Bob Nolan) – 2:36
"Freight Train Blues" (traditional) – 1:15
"San Antonio Rose" (Bob Wills) – 2:10
"I'm Not Coming Home Anymore" – 2:51
"I Ain't Gonna Love You Anymore" (Ernest Tubb) – 1:28
"Won't You Sometimes Think of Me" – 1:56
"Why Should I Cry" – 1:50
"I Watched My Dream World Crumble Like Clay" – 1:48
"I Told a Lie to My Heart" – 2:18
"Mother Is Gone" – 2:28
"In My Dreams You Still Belong to Me" – 2:20
"We're Getting Closer to the Grave Each Day" – 2:35
"I'm Going Home" – 1:25
"Calling You" – 1:53
"Pan American" – 2:05
"Wealth Won't Save Your Soul" – 2:31
"Honky Tonk Blues" – 2:00
"A Home in Heaven" – 2:03
"You Broke Your Own Heart" – 2:03
"I'm So Tired of It All" – 2:23 Disco sei
"You Caused It All by Telling Lies" (Clyde Moody) – 1:36
"Faded Love and Winter Roses" (Rose) – 1:57
"Please Don't Let Me Love You" (Ralph Jones) – 2:15
"There's No Room in My Heart for the Blues" (Rose, Zeb Turner) – 2:14
"I Wish I Had a Nickel" (W.S. Barnhart, Tommy Sutton) – 1:42
"The Waltz of the Wind" (Rose) – 2:06
"At the First Fall of Snow" (Rose) – 3:11
"Leave Me Alone With the Blues" (Joe Pope) – 2:16
"I'm Free at Last" (Tubb) – 2:20
"Blue Love (In My Heart)" (Floyd Jenkins) – 2:03
"It Just Don't Matter Now" (Tubb) – 2:26
"Little Paper Boy" (Jim Anglin, Johnnie Wright) – 3:00
"Someday You'll Call My Name" (Jean Branch, Eddie Hill) – 2:10
"The Battle of Armageddon" (Roy Acuff, Odell McLeod) – 2:27
"No One Will Ever Know" (Mel Foree, Rose) – 2:16
"With Tears in My Eyes" (Paul Howard) – 2:12
"Thank God" (Rose) – 2:16
"Rock My Cradle Once Again" (Johnny Bond, Billy Folger) – 3:02
"Don't Do It, Darling" (Zeke Manners) – 1:51 Disco sette
"Rockin' Chair Money" (Bill Carlisle, Lonnie Glosson) – 2:05
"Cool Water" (Bob Nolan) – 3:43
"Tennessee Border" (Jimmy Work) – 1:52
"First Year Blues" (Tubb) – 2:24
"My Main Trial Is Yet to Come" (J.L. Frank, Pee Wee King) – 1:56
"Wait for the Light to Shine" (Rose) – 2:40
"We Live in Two Different Worlds" (Rose) – 1:57
"Roly Poly" (Rose) – 2:00
"Swing Wide Your Gate of Love" (Hank Thompson) – 2:21
"Dixie Cannonball" (Gene Autry, Red Foley, Johnnie Horton) – 2:22
"Sundown and Sorrow" (Frank, King) – 1:21
"The Devil's Train" (Cliff Carlisle, Mel Foree) – 2:58
"The Old Home" (Jackie Earls) – 2:41
"Alone and Forsaken" – 1:59
"Heaven Holds All My Treasures" – 2:37
"Lost on the River" – 2:17
"A House of Gold" – 2:14
"Singing Waterfall" – 2:11
"Dear Brother" – 2:27
"'Neath a Cold Gray Tomb of Stone" (Foree, Williams) – 2:41
"Time Has Proven I Was Wrong" (Foree, Curley Williams, Williams) – 1:13
"No, Not Now" (Foree, C. Williams, Williams) – 2:09
"When You're Tired of Breaking Others Hearts" (C. Williams, Williams) – 1:08
"Honey Do You Love Me, Huh?" (C. Williams, Williams) – 1:15 Disco otto
"California Zephyr" – 1:56
"Your Cheatin' Heart" – 2:33
"You Better Keep It on Your Mind" (Vic McAlpin, Williams) – 2:23
"How Can You Refuse Him Now?" – 2:34
"Low Down Blues" – 1:20
"Ten Little Numbers" (Acuff) – 1:16
"Thy Burdens Are Greater Than Mine" (King, Redd Stewart) – 3:28
"Last Night I Dreamed of Heaven" – 1:20
"I Ain't Got Nothin' But Time" – 2:40
"Message to My Mother" – 4:04
"Fool About You" (Ralph C. Hutchinson) – 1:24
"I'm Going Home" – 1:51
"Jambalaya (On the Bayou)" – 1:51
"Ready to Go Home" – 1:45
"Kaw-Liga" (Rose, Williams) – 2:38
"I Could Never Be Ashamed of You" – 2:17
"Angel of Death" – 2:20
"All the Love I Ever Had" – 1:46
"We're Getting Closer to the Grave Each Day" – 2:06
"The Log Train" – 2:21
"How to Write Folk & Western Music to Sell" – 1:54 Disco nove
"There's a Tear in My Beer" – 2:46
"The Alabama Waltz" – 1:05
"Jesus Died for Me" – 2:26
"A Teardrop on a Rose" – 2:27
"Jesus Is Calling" (Charlie Monroe, Williams) – 1:36
"Wearing Out Your Walkin' Shoes" – 1:35
"When the Book of Life Is Read" – 1:24
"There's Nothing as Sweet as My Baby" – 1:59
"(I'm Gonna) Sing, Sing, Sing" – 1:48
"I Can't Escape from You" – 2:15
"Weary Blues from Waitin'" – 2:26
"Are You Walkin' and Talkin' for the Lord" – 2:42
"If You'll Be a Baby to Me" – 0:56
"'Neath a Cold Gray Tomb of Stone" (Foree, Williams) – 2:50
"Lost Highway" (Leon Payne) – 4:03
"I'm a Long Gone Daddy" – 5:40
"Long Gone Lonesome Blues" – 3:26
"Help Me Understand" – 6:18
"When God Dips His Love in My Heart" (Cleavant Derricks) – 2:23
"They'll Never Take Her Love from Me" (Payne) – 4:33
"Are You Walkin' and Talkin' for the Lord" – 2:15
"Honky Tonkin'" – 2:13
"I Cried Again" (Autry Inman) – 3:11
"The Wild Side of Life" (Arlie Carter, William Warren) – 2:55
"Something Got a Hold of Me" (A.P. Carter) – 2:29
"Drifting Too Far from the Shore" (Charles E. Moody) – 3:13 Disco dieci
"Lovesick Blues" (Friend, Mills) – 3:11
"Move It on Over" – 2:52
"You're Gonna Change (Or I'm Gonna Leave)" – 2:45
"I Just Don't Like This Kind of Livin'" – 3:26
"Talk With Minnie Pearl" – 2:56
"They'll Never Take Her Love from Me" (Payne) – 1:34
"Long Gone Lonesome Blues" – 3:31
"Why Don't You Love Me (Like You Used to Do)?" – 1:43
"Talk With Minnie Pearl" – 3:37
"Moanin' the Blues" – 3:19
"Nobody's Lonesome for Me" – 2:30
"Dear John" (Gass, Ritter) – 2:08
"Hey, Good Lookin'" – 2:46
"Honky Tonk Blues" (Williams) – 1:54
"Let the Spirit Descend" (traditional) – 2:05
"Cold, Cold Heart" – 2:31
"Baby, We're Really in Love" – 1:36
"The Old Country Church" (John Whitfield Vaughn) – 2:35
"A Tramp on the Street" (Grady Cole, Hazel Cole) – 3:48
"I'll Have a New Body (I'll Have a New Life)" (traditional) – 2:25
"I Want to Live and Love" (Gene Sullivan, Wiley Walker) – 2:25
"Where the Soul of Man Never Dies" (William Lee Golden, Wayne Raney) – 1:47
"The Prodigal Son" (Floyd Jenkins) – 2:57
"I Can't Help It (If I'm Still in Love With You)" – 1:57
"The Apology #2" – 2:49
Anita Carter – performer
Grant Turner – performer
Kitty Wells – performer
Audrey Williams – performer
Hank Williams – guitar, vocals
Johnnie Wright – performer Produzione
Charlie Adams – photographer
Craig Allen – design
Daniel Cooper – liner notes
Don Daily – photography
Colin Escott – producer, liner notes, photography
Kira Florita – producer, editing, project coordinator
Jerry Joyner – design
Jim Kemp – art direction
Griffin Norman – photography
Joseph M. Palmaccio – mastering engineerFred Rose – producer
Tom "Curly" Ruff – mastering engineer
Billy Smith – photography
Alan Stoker – restoration
Marty Stuart – photography
Virginia Team – art direction
Richard Weize – photography
Jett Williams – photography
Kyle Young – compilation producer Note
↑ The Complete 10 CD Box Set. Official Hank Williams Website. Accessed October 14, 2007. ↑ Tucker, Ken. (September 25, 1998) Hank goodness. Entertainment Weekly. Accessed October 14, 2007. ↑ 225) The Complete Hank Williams Rolling Stone Magazine online. (November 1, 2003). Accessed Month Day 2007. ↑ allmusic.com , http://www.allmusic.com/album/the-complete-hank-williams-mw0000600693 .
